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Four eyes are just better. Everyone can see.

THE BOOK from Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day by Ben Loory. "THE WOMAN RETURNS FROM THE STORE WITH AN armload of books. She reads them quickly, one by one, over the course of the next few weeks. But when she opens the last one, the woman frowns in surprise. All the pages in the book are blank. Every single one. The woman takes the book back to the store, but the manager won’t let her return it. Right there on the cover, the manager says, This book has no words and is non-returnable." https://www.instagram.com/p/Cf61DnhO1NL/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Or the weekend begins, whichever you choose. Acrylic painting on matchbook with watercolor + doodled background size 4 x 6 inches.

Acrylic on 5 x 5 canvas

Even my food is snarled. https://www.instagram.com/p/CeoZoGUu8EH/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

SteveO with his arms up. An old ballpoint pen sketch from several years ago. Red Bic pen layer converted to black and white.

Blanket. Acrylic on canvas. 30”x 40” Someday we just don’t want to leave our blankets.

My Apple ii. Unless you've had one, you won't really understand. Even has a whole 64KB with the language card. TG Products joystick with a ribbon cable connector. No cassettes, it's 5.25" floppies! Amdek color monitor. This ended up looking like an advertisement from an old computer magazine.

A self portrait we had to turn into something creative

A interstellar heavy duty spaceship freighter design :)

Reference photo: @fairylady_

An automatic drawing, everything is out of my head with only the briefest idea of a story line. I played around with shapes and lines and shading to see what affect would result. It was fun, but time consuming.

Composition exploration sketch for a 2,5x1m line art illustration on canvas. 2019

lavender in calligraphy lettering.....do check out y wrks on instagram @color.rapids

A cat under a hat. https://www.instagram.com/p/CYCwVwsBqEB/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Fineliners used to draw a cartoon version of my kitty girl Stella

I hope everyone enjoys a safe holiday season. Here’s a grumpy Christmas cat giving the obligatory middle finger to omicron!

Paints and pencils doodle characters.

I modified the challenge a wee bit. I didn't use the same paper for the various drawings since I was using (top row, left to right) hard graphite pencils (3H to HB), watercolor pencils, (bottom row, left to right) brush pens and ballpoint pen. These media work best on very different paper textures and moisture absorbing qualities. The second picture shows the object of my study --- and the apparatus I use to hold botanical subjects. "Third hand" tools are very useful and cheap. This one was under $10 and serves my purposes well. Just FYI. (Each drawing/painting was scanned and composited in Photoshop.)

Overlapping Circles

Action 7 x 5 canvas

July 2021. Graphite Drawing

Still having a difficult time with crosshatching. '(ᗒᗣᗕ)՞ Why....Why you so difficult!!

Many beginnings. Beginning 12. The voice of the teacher was low and soothing. The air was warm and smelled of butterfly dust and buttered toast. * Starting is easy, it's the middle that is often a muddle. And I won't even mention the endings. Here are some beginnings for children stories that flitter through my head. https://www.instagram.com/p/CPJXmYBBi-m/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link